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Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump would never be labeled as spring chickens.

Clinton will turn 69 next month, and Trump is 70. The two make up the oldest pair of major party presidential candidates in American history. If Clinton wins, she’ll be the same age as Ronald Reagan when he was inaugurated. If Trump wins, he’ll be the oldest.

Before last week, the media had already made an issue of Trump not releasing his health records, along with his taxes. Social media have had a ball making jokes about his “sketchy” looking doctor.

Then, the discussion about a candidate’s health went into an even higher gear when, on Sunday, Clinton was diagnosed with pneumonia.

Pneumonia is nothing to play around with. Two presidents -- William Henry Harrison and Benjamin Harrison --- actually died in office because of it. But the former died in 1841 and the latter in 1901. To say medicine has come a long way since then is an understatement.

Like most aspects of politics, we’ve seen this before. American culture has an ailment of its own, a really bad case of amnesia.

Presidents get sick, it happens. So it should come as no surprise that Trump or Clinton may not be at their best all of the time. Besides the Harrisons, only two other presidents have died of ailments while in office -- Warren Harding and FDR, whose "disabilities" did not prevent him from becoming our only three-term president.

“When we talk of presidential ill health, I think of Dwight Eisenhower’s heart attack, which was massive,” said Robert E. Gilbert, professor emeritus of political science at Northeastern University. “I think of Ronald Reagan being shot and almost killed by an assassin. Pneumonia pales in comparison to Lyndon Johnson’s gall bladder surgery and things like that. I think the American people have no idea how many presidents have been ill.”

“George Washington had cancer. Right from the beginning, almost every president was ill, and very often the illnesses were concealed. It’s not surprising that Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump don’t want to announce if they are sick. Illness weakens a presidency. It discombobulates the nation when they are ill.”

JFK had back problems, George W. Bush vomited, Woodrow Wilson had a stroke, and Gerald Ford fell down a lot.

That’s why we hope that the American public won’t let this current news cycle get them sidetracked from the real issues and the importance of this election.

Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton are human, and need their sicks days like the rest of us. But nobody ever asks us if we’d be unfit to do our jobs just because we occasionally have to use some PTO.